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Re: Forum Spam

Post by farinal » Fri Mar 04, 2016 12:58 am

I dont know why those kitchen furniture spammers are obsessed with this forum.
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Re: Forum Spam

Post by Majestic » Fri Mar 04, 2016 10:09 pm

It's an attempt to cash in on the fine, artisanal Hobbit woodworking fandom.
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Re: Forum Spam

Post by zedturtle » Sat Mar 05, 2016 12:27 am

This is positively ridiculous. Light the beacons of Mod-dor!
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Re: Forum Spam

Post by zedturtle » Sat Mar 05, 2016 12:38 am

If I had a burner credit card, I'd pay these folks for an essay on 'How to apply Tolkien's thoughts on free will to playing The One Ring' with the requirements that it take my false starts as a basis and end up with at least twenty pages and have at least a +5 defense against criticism from textual literalists.

Oh well.
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Re: Forum Spam

Post by zedturtle » Sat Mar 05, 2016 12:48 am

A passing thought:

The spammers only seem to hit this forum, surely because their programming must tell them to hit the most popular forum. Is there a way to spoof the numbers so that another forum (one created specifically for such a purpose, of course) was targeted?

So all the spammers would post into "The Adventures of Spam-man" forum, which could then be cleared out on as needed basis. That forum would always present itself as having a bunch of topics, even if that wasn't true.

Such functionality probably doesn't exist in the software, and it'd only encourage them to get that much smarter, but it's a thought.
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Re: Forum Spam

Post by Rocmistro » Sat Mar 05, 2016 12:52 am

holy crap they came out of the woodwork tonight
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Re: Forum Spam

Post by Curulon » Sat Mar 05, 2016 2:22 am

Sauron has revealed his deadliest servants!

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Re: Forum Spam

Post by Glorelendil » Sat Mar 05, 2016 2:44 am

I'm busy signing up "info@essayoneday.com" to the most spammy email lists I know of.
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Re: Forum Spam

Post by Rocmistro » Sat Mar 05, 2016 3:00 am

Jon, T.S., Andrew, I'm happy to volunteer for Spam Sniper detail if you need more people.
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Re: Forum Spam

Post by Curulon » Sat Mar 05, 2016 5:19 am

My god.

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